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Re: Anti Virus Software on a Mac?

From Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: Anti Virus Software on a Mac?
Date 2013-10-19 10:10 +1300
Organization Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID <191020131010561642%YourName@YourISP.com> (permalink)
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In article <04g2691n313pimvsdr53b0u61m9rg8v5ti@4ax.com>, John
<Man@the.keyboard> wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Oct 2013 09:33:04 +1300, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
> wrote:
> >In article <1laxi6u.165se85zzngfdN%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz>, Jamie
> >Kahn Genet <jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> wrote:
> >> Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> >> > In message <1lavyq6.1mba4131wd450yN%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> 
> >> >   Jamie Kahn Genet <jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> wrote:
> >> > > Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> >> > >> In article <1latijk.akg8ii6aqpggN%dcohenspam@talktalk.net>,
> >> > >>  dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) wrote:
> >> > >> > Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
> >> > >> > 
> >> > >> > > In all the MANY years of using and adminstering Apple computers
> >> > >> > > (since
> >> > >> > > before there even was a Mac), I have only ever found ONE virus,
> >> > >> > > and
> >> > >> > > that was a Windows virus infecting a Word document on a floppy
> >> > >> > > disk
> >> > >> > > from a Windows user way back under Mac OS 8.
> >> > >> > 
> >> > >> > Ph well, if you're going that far back, I will mention that once I
> >> > >> > had a virus on my Mac (around system 6 pr 7), and that came from a
> >> > >> > cover disk of a Mac magazine.
> >> > >> 
> >> > >> I've had several run-ins with classic Mac viruses myself. Those were
> >> > >> fun days!  : )
> >> > > 
> >> > > A mate used to collect them - had a few floppies full.
> >> > 
> >> > They would have all fit on a single floppy.  There were, IIRC, 31 total.
> >> > Disinfectant was a system extension that protected from all of them.
> >> 
> >> *shrug* A few infected hypercard stacks which were not insignificant in
> >> size. But I'm sure just the uncompiled code for every single classic Mac
> >> virus, worm and trojan horse could have fit on one single sided 400K
> >> floppy. Those were the days. Try fitting an OS (System 6 for example),
> >> an app and still having room for several documents on one 1.44MB floppy
> >> nowadays. If you can find such a floppy. 
> >
> >I've got hundreds of them - Amiga formatted and Mac formatted.  :-)
> >
> >Brnad new floppy disks are hard to find, although I seem to recall
> >reading only relatively recently that some company had decided to stop
> >making them.
> 
>  http://www.maplin.co.uk/verbatim-hd-colour-floppy-disk-10-pack-33664
> 
>  http://www.maplin.co.uk/usb-floppy-drive-external-44725 

Yep, you can still buy them, but they are hard to find in the local
shops (ocassionally I still see some).




> >> Or anything to read it.
> >
> >Well, if you want to spend the time to clean and re-align my PowerMac's
> >floppy drive, then I can read them.
> 
>  http://www.maplin.co.uk/diskcare-floppy-drive-cleaners-89mm-388

I'm not sure it's really worth the expense and time. Besides I totok
the floppy drive out when it stopped working and used that drive bay in
my PowerMac for an extra hard drive.




> >> I wonder if my Imation SuperDisk (failed 120MB 'super' floppies, plus
> >> regular 1.44MB floppy read/write) still works with modern Macs...?
> >
> >It might do, depending on the connector and disk formatting. My
> >PowerMac's internal Zip drive still works with Mac OS X 10.1 and 10.2.
> 
>  If it doesn't can't you just boot an older Mac up as a target device
> and use the floppy drive or peripheral in that? I thought that was
> *easy* with Macs? 
>  Oh ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_Disk_Mode says "... some
> ..." will do that. Pity. I thought *all* of them would. 

It depends on the Mac. Some older ones can't do "Target Mode" ... but
in some case you can still connect to them via the sharing network
options and access the drives.

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